Get the biggest money stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailA hospital is set to give anxious patients video goggles to distract them during operations. Patients can watch films or TV shows on the hi-tech headsets while they have surgery under local anaesthetic. It is thought to be the first time the goggles will be used in a UK hospital. Patients comfortable under local anaesthetic with the goggles do not need sedating, meaning they recover faster and spend less time in hospital. We hope [to] free up nurses as well as making more bed space available.”Patient Steve Mountain used the goggles during a prostate procedure.

Source: Daily Mirror November 04, 2019 19:41 UTC